Irina Kakhovskaya

Irina Kakhovskaya (15 August 1887-1 March 1960) was a Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party revolutionary.

Biography
Irina Kakhovskaya was born in Tarascha, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire on 15 August 1887, and she became a revolutionary in 1905, becoming the Bolshevik party secretary in St. Petersburg. However, she soon changed her views and joined the ultra-revolutionary Socialist Revolutionary Party, and she was imprisoned from 1907 to 1914 due to her political activities. In 1917, he assisted with the founding of the Chita Committee of the SRs, and she joined the left wing of the SRs during the Russian Civil War. In 1918, she took part in the assassination of German general Hermann von Eichhorn in Ukraine, and she was imprisoned by the Germans from 1918 to 1919. That year, she was arrested by the Cheka, but she was released on the orders of Vladimir Lenin due to her plans to assassinate White movement leader Anton Denikin. In 1921, she was arrested and deported to Kaluga, being rearrested in 1925 and sent to a labor camp. She would be in and out of prison or exile until 1954, and she moved to Maloyaroslavets in 1955. She died in 1960 from liver cancer.